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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 2d

Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)

When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · 15d

Join the launch of, ‘Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race’. By Claire Blencowe

Discussants: Goldie Osuri, Hannah Jones & Martin Savransky.

Date: Thursday, 9 October
Time: 4:00–5:30 pm
Location: Ramphal Building, R1.15

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · 7d

Contact Warwick Sociology supervisors NOW to discuss your proposal for doctoral study in our areas of expertise & apply for PhD funding inc fees, living & research expenses @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW497/e...

ESRC PhD Studentships in the Social Sciences in the Midlands Graduate School at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · 7d

Contact Warwick Sociology supervisors NOW to discuss your proposal for doctoral study in our areas of expertise & apply for PhD funding inc fees, living & research expenses @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW497/e...

ESRC PhD Studentships in the Social Sciences in the Midlands Graduate School at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · 15d

Join the launch of, ‘Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race’. By Claire Blencowe

Discussants: Goldie Osuri, Hannah Jones & Martin Savransky.

Date: Thursday, 9 October
Time: 4:00–5:30 pm
Location: Ramphal Building, R1.15

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · 21d

Check out new research by Jamie Shenk contributing to Rutas del Conflicto’s investigation.

The work advances understandings of how state, corporate, and military
relations intersect with human rights abuses
#Sociology
#HumanRights
#Colombia
#CorporateAccountability)
Details here:
lnkd.in/eVMWNYYn

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Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social · Aug 25

Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!

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Derya Ozkul @deryaozkul.bsky.social · Jul 10

New Publication 📘

Happy to share that our special issue, “Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, with Marie Godin and @rachelhumphris.bsky.social has now been published.

🔗 Available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/1369...

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Albert Ali Salah @albertalisalah.bsky.social · Aug 4

“Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, published #OpenAccess in JEMS:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

edited by:
@mariegodin.bsky.social @deryaozkul.bsky.social @rachelhumphris.bsky.social

@koenleurs.bsky.social @kinanalajak.bsky.social #RianneDekker

Digital technologies and migration: behind, beyond and around the black box

Digital technologies have often been criticised due to their tendency to operate as ‘black boxes’, owing to their complexity and opacity, which pose challenges to understanding their inner mechanis...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social · Aug 19

This fab article invites many responses. At @create-glasgow.bsky.social we often ask: why do people create? Some answers here: 'creativity' as part of how Kevin A, in prison, 'succumbs to & resists' his 'marginalisation'; 'he perhaps even finds healing (or at least a promise of it) through the arts'

Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Pain of all sorts, and its attendant politics, is particularly evident in the area of the prison where we are working, and where Kevin A. is housed"... New article by Ruth Bernatek @sociowarwick.bsky.social on an experience of prison @saulhewish.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Embodying Kevin A: notes on identity, creativity & prison

I have only ever known one Kevin, and only then for a very brief period of time. He is Kevin A., and I met him in prison whilst taking part in an eight-day lyric writing workshop, in early January ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Pain of all sorts, and its attendant politics, is particularly evident in the area of the prison where we are working, and where Kevin A. is housed"... New article by Ruth Bernatek @sociowarwick.bsky.social on an experience of prison @saulhewish.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Embodying Kevin A: notes on identity, creativity & prison

I have only ever known one Kevin, and only then for a very brief period of time. He is Kevin A., and I met him in prison whilst taking part in an eight-day lyric writing workshop, in early January ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · Jul 10

Student antiracist activists working with Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social& Anna Numa Hopkins in Warwick Sociology, have created an online archive of student-led #antiracist activism, to pass on experiences and knowledge to future generations in #HigherEducation : warwickantiracism.org

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · Jul 14

New article from Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social & @lancasteruni.bsky.social 's @alasirriyeh.bsky.social in @csp-journal.bsky.social Student antiracist activism & institutionalised equality, diversity& inclusion (#EDI) in UK universities #DEI #antiracism #HE journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · Jul 17

🥳🥳🥳 we are delighted to share that our Silvia Gomes & Dixie Rocker are winners of the European Society of Criminology’s Book of the Year Award for their book “Gender, Prison & Reentry Experiences: A matter of time”. 🌟🌟🌟 Check out the book here:
www.routledge.com/Gender-Priso...

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · Jul 7

New article from Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social w/ Christy Kulz @ckulz.bsky.social, "Culture Wars as a War on the Young: Understanding the UK Culture Wars Through the Lens of Young People’s Political & Civic Resistance"👇🏼: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#CultureWar#LGBTQ #antiracism #schools

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · Jul 14

New article from Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social & @lancasteruni.bsky.social 's @alasirriyeh.bsky.social in @csp-journal.bsky.social Student antiracist activism & institutionalised equality, diversity& inclusion (#EDI) in UK universities #DEI #antiracism #HE journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · Jul 10

Student antiracist activists working with Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social& Anna Numa Hopkins in Warwick Sociology, have created an online archive of student-led #antiracist activism, to pass on experiences and knowledge to future generations in #HigherEducation : warwickantiracism.org

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · Jul 7

New article from Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social w/ Christy Kulz @ckulz.bsky.social, "Culture Wars as a War on the Young: Understanding the UK Culture Wars Through the Lens of Young People’s Political & Civic Resistance"👇🏼: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#CultureWar#LGBTQ #antiracism #schools

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Derya Ozkul @deryaozkul.bsky.social · Jul 1

www.hertie-school.org/en/news/deta...

AFAR researchers inform UN guidelines on digital border governance in 2-day event

Researchers from the Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (AFAR) Project inform UN guidelines in two-day Geneva event.

www.hertie-school.org

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Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School @hertiecfr.bsky.social · Jun 23

Now, on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Algorithmic Fairness in Asylum Seekers and Refugees Project in spotlight. @volkswagenstiftung.de

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢Our Racism, Resistance and Social change series publishes the most challenging scholarship on race, racism and ethnic relations - mapping their shifting forms in the contemporary age and recognising anti-racism as an intellectual and social movement.

Find out about our Spring titles below!👇

Promotional image featuring three new titles in the Racism, Resistance and Social Change book series from Manchester University Press. Red background. Background image is a photograph of protestors raising their fists in solidarity. Book covers from left-right: Spirits of extraction, Islamophobia, antiracism and the British left, and The ethics of researching the far right.

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Nick Gane @nickgane.bsky.social · Jun 7

Lovely obituary by Nickie Charles of Carol Wolkowitz who taught me at Warwick in the 1990s. She was a wonderful teacher who brought sociology to life

@sociowarwick.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Carol Wolkowitz obituary

Other lives: Sociologist who examined how gender shapes our working lives

www.theguardian.com

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Warwick Sociology @sociowarwick.bsky.social · Jun 5

📣Warwick Antiracism Archive Launch! Come discover our new resource on knowledge b/w generations of student antiracist activists at Warwick. 20/06 2-4pm in R0.12. Register & details: link.outsavvy.com/antiracism led by
@uncomfiest.bsky.social
w/ support from Anna Numa Hopkins & 6 student researchers.

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CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social · May 2

Protecting the Digital Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Organised by @hertiecfr.bsky.social with @profccostello.bsky.social (moderator), @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social, @deryaozkul.bsky.social, Joanna Parkin, Eleftherios Chelioudakis

More information: cpdp.be/2851
#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #asylum

Protecting the Digital Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees
As displaced populations increasingly interact with technologies, effective digital rights protection is more urgent than ever. This panel discusses the role data protection law plays in safeguarding the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. It examines the legal and practical challenges that arise in ensuring privacy, consent, and fairness for these vulnerable individuals. Our panel aims to foster a collaborative dialogue between academia (particularly researchers of the AFAR project), NGOs, and data protection authorities to close gaps between law and practice and to empower displaced individuals to exercise their digital rights. To create a dynamic session, we will invite stakeholders from the fields of Data Privacy and New Technologies to attend our panel as guests. These stakeholders will be engaged during the Q&A session to provide additional perspectives and foster a vibrant, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas.

Questions to be answered:
- What specific challenges do asylum seekers and refugees face in enforcing their digital rights?
- How can data protection officers (DPOs) and related professionals make use of emerging regulations like the AI Act to safeguard privacy and fairness for asylum seekers and refugees?
- What role does collaboration among data protection authorities, NGOs, and academia play in protecting digital rights for displaced populations?
- How can digital rights frameworks for asylum seekers and refugees be strengthened to address the challenges posed by surveillance and automation?

Organised by Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School with Cathryn Costello (moderator), FRANCESCA PALMIOTTO, Derya Ozkul, Joanna Parkin, Eleftherios Chelioudakis

More information: https://cpdp.be/2851

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Ayse Guveli @ayseguveli.bsky.social · Apr 13

Research shows GenZ are more often believers than Millennials in NL, but church membership keeps declining. Is it period or age effect though?

We show similar findings for west Europe for different religions, mainly for Muslim and Protestant second generation 👇

ideas.repec.org/a/spr/eurpop...

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